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Comparative World Religions Resources

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Comparative World Religions
Web site	Subject	Level	Applicable	Synopsis
World Religions		Teachers & HS Students	All units	Information about 40 organized religions and faith groups. This site promotes religious tolerance. That is, they encourage people to respect the freedom of other individuals to follow freely their own religious and spiritual paths, without discrimination and oppression.
Religion Facts		Teachers & HS Students	All units	The goal of this Web site is to provide free, reliable information on the various answers that have been given to the near-universal questions of religion, as well as the rituals and customs that go along with them. They have articles on a wide variety of world religions, both ancient and modern, as well as "ways of life," philosophies and mind-body teachings, and even some anti-religion systems like ancient Epicureanism and modern atheism. Religion Facts is an objective guide and does not promote any one religion or belief system nor even a particular view of religion.
Comparative Religion: Religions of the World		Teachers & HS Students	All units	This site is devoted to bringing to one place on the internet the key books and writings of human spiritual and religious thought. Covering the major religions of the world, alternative spiritual systems, and ancient mythologies, this is an ever expanding work in the making. This is a strictly neutral and non-commercial project, that seeks to properly and without bias represent the various religions of the world, for comparative analysis, religious study, and spiritual reading.
Adherents.com		Teachers & HS Students	All units	Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The religions of the world are enumerated here.
The Internet Sacred Text Archive		Teachers & HS Students	All units	The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and has the largest readership of any similar site on the web.
British Library - Expressions of Faith		Teachers & HS Students	All units	The British Library holds a wealth of sacred manuscripts from around the world – many of them rare, ancient and beautiful. This site contains a number of primary source images from those manuscripts along with commentaries. This is a good source for religious graphics to supplement presentations.
The Association of Religion Data Archives- Educators Site		Teachers	All units	The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. At this site, ARDA has developed a series of tools for education. Learning modules provide structured class assignments and the many online tools allow students to explore religion across the globe or in their own backyard. The data reviewed are submitted by the foremost religion scholars and research centers in the world.
Wabash Center- Dealing with Emotionally Intense Issues		Teachers	All Units	This site provides a very useful set of internet resources for gaining greater mastery in teaching controversial and emotionally intense topics. As these are quite likely to come up on occasion in a class involving the comparison of religions, this is very useful information.
Wabash Center- Internet Guide to Religion		Teachers & HS Students	All units	A selective, annotated guide to a wide variety of electronic resources of interest to those who are involved in the study and practice of religion: syllabi, electronic texts, electronic journals, web sites, bibliographies, liturgies, reference resources, software, etc. The purpose of the Guide is to encourage and facilitate the incorporation of electronic resources into teaching.
PBS- Religion & Ethics Newsweekly for Teachers		Teachers	All Units	Developed in conjunction with EdOnline, Thirteen/WNET's educational division, RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY's lesson plans introduce students to today's most important religious and moral issues. Using selected stories, online video, and other resources from the R&E Web site, these lessons address a broad range of current events from bioethics and the role of faith in politics to Islam and terrorism.
Religious Studies in Secondary Schools		Teachers	All Units	RSISS is a coalition of public and private secondary school teachers committed to the idea that education is not complete without the academic study of the world's religious traditions and the ethical values, literatures, and cultures so inextricably linked to them. The syllabi section, while incomplete, is of particular interest. This is a useful site for teachers wishing to network with other educators interested in improved teaching on this subject.

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